Judge finds 'severe deficiencies' in Trump admin's use of Alien Enemies Act, permanently blocking future deportations
Source: Law & Crime
Jun 10th, 2025, 11:24 am
A federal judge in Texas blocked the Trump administration from summarily deporting migrants in the state under a rarely-used 18th-century wartime power with little or no due process, becoming the latest in a growing line of jurists to hold that President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) was unlawful.
U.S. District Judge David Briones on Monday granted a request for a permanent injunction barring the government from removing Venezuelan migrants accused of being members of the Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang to the notorious CECOT terrorist prison in El Salvador.
In a 56-page order, Briones wrote that Trump’s proclamation was “hereby declared unlawful,” reasoning that the administration’s implementation of the executive order was “inconsistent with the AEA” and its statutory requirements.
“Under the AEA, a president cannot unilaterally define what constitutes an invasion, summarily declare that a foreign nation or government has threatened or perpetrated an invasion or predatory incursion of the United States, identify alien enemies subject to detention or removal, and summarily remove them,” the judge wrote.
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Full headline: ‘Hereby declared unlawful’: Judge finds ‘severe deficiencies’ in Trump admin’s use of Alien Enemies Act, permanently blocking future deportations
Link to ORDER (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25969686-briones-aea-order/
Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25969686/briones-aea-order.pdf
This is a Texas case (Clinton judge) and some of the other cases were -
California - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143470525
Georgia - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143463410
Pennsylvania - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143458534
Washington, D.C. - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143471718
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